What is BBC News

The BBC News app has been completelyredesigned with a fresh look and feel to bring you more content,greater personalisation and better overall performance. So you canget more of the news that matters to you.

Key features:Top Stories brings you the latest, breaking news from our trustedglobal network of journalists.My News is a newly introduced feature allowing you to personaliseyour news offering.Add topics wherever you see the + icon for a quick route straightto the stories you care about.Stories from topics you add will appear in your personalised MyNews feed. Here you can order stories by topic or time, and use theManage Topics screen to stay on top of the news of the day.You can also switch the My News by Topic screen to a moretraditional carousel view from the Settings screen.

Find content fastThe app can suggest topics based on stories you’ve recently viewedand what’s in the news now.And you can quickly find topics that interest you using the TopicSearch. Choose from the familiar list of BBC News indexes such asBusiness, Technology, Entertainment and Health, or search for yourown subjects of interest, whether they’re people, places, things orthemes.

More of the news you care aboutWe now offer a fuller selection of stories from the newsroom,including:– Most Read and Most Watched. Keep on top of popular stories acrossthe BBC, regularly updated throughout the day– Live BBC World Service Radio. Expertise and insight from ourjournalists available 24-hours a day and ready to listen to in thebackground as you browse– Read the best journalism from BBC correspondents– Access to our full range of video and audio– Photo galleries and full-screen images

Other features:– Push notifications for breaking news stories– Video over cellular and wifi– Improved offline experience. Download the latest stories when youhave a signal and then read them at your leisure– Viewing modes. See more stories per index by choosing ‘Compactlayout’ from the Settings screen– Settings to allow the app to automatically update in thebackground– Share stories to your social networks, or email/SMS to afriend– Support for dynamic text. The app will respect the font size inyour device settings so you can increase or decrease the story textsize as suits your preference– Related stories, related topics. Go deeper into a storyline withsuggestions for further reading and viewing and a range of topicsrelated to each story

If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifierrelating to your device will be stored by ProcessOne on behalf ofthe BBC to provide you with the service.No other personal data relating to you (such as a username or emailaddress) is processed. The BBC will keep your information secureand not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’sPrivacy and Cookies Policy, available athttp://www.bbc.com/privacy/You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from yourdevice’s Notifications screen: locate the BBC News app icon fromthe list and turn off ‘Allow Notifications’.